Big NASCAR race named in honor of Erlanger veteran

5:42 PM,
Jun. 27, 2013

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kurt Busch, center, congratulates U.S. Marine veteran Samuel Deeds, right, for having the NASCAR Brickyard 400 race in Indianapolis named in his honor. Patricia Driscoll, president of the Armed Forces Foundation and Busch's girlfriend, is at left.

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U.S. Marine veteran Samuel Deeds of Erlanger was recognized Thursday as the winner of Crown Royal's "Your Hero's Name Here" program in a ceremony that included NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver Kurt Busch and country music star Justin Moore.

Deeds will have the 20th running of the Brickyard 400 Sprint Cup race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next month named in his honor.

While a gunnery sergeant in Iraq, Deeds was severely injured when he exposed himself to an improvised explosive device to save his fellow Marines from harm. Deeds underwent more than 30 surgeries as a result of the injuries he ...